Yellow Swans have amassed a vast catalogue of limited CD-Rs and lathe cut vinyl. However where many have spread themselves too thinly with one idea over an enormous quantity of wasted time, Yellow swans wisely seemed to use the obscure releases for experimentation, whilst saving their best work for the major releases on Narnack and Load records. Yellow Swans are the duo of Pete Swanson & Gabriel Mindel Sclanon from Portland, Oregon. Not quite fitting into pure noise or drone categories by including Krautesque rhythms and ecstatic white light guitar shredding, they sat above the many noise acts that proliferated in the early mid noughties. Where many underground acts supply a slate grey ambiguety or plain old depressed horror industrial attitudes, Yellow Swans induce upliftment, without the emotional manipulation you can sometimes feel with A Silver Mt Zion and their ilk. The closest comparison to Yellow Swans would be Flying Saucer Attack without the British Folk connotations.
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